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APULEIUS, METAMORPHOSES 10.25.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2014

G. Vannini
G. Vannini*
Affiliation:
Università per Stranieri di Perugia
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giulio.vannini@unistrapg.it
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nec iuvenis sororis suae mortem tam miseram et quae minime par erat inlatam aequo tolerare quivit animo, sed … exin flagrantissimis febribus ardebat, ut ipsi quoque iam medela videretur esse necessaria.

This is the text of the passage describing the reaction of the young man at the news that his beloved sister has been murdered flagris and titione candenti inter media femina detruso as it is transmitted by the Florentine MS (F). With the few exceptions which I discuss below, the vast majority of editors accept the text of F, betraying resignation before a paradosis that can hardly seem genuine, since it can be maintained only by forcing both word order and syntax. Editors either refer quae to mortem, assuming an ellipsis of ei (i.e. sorori) in the relative clause and taking par as ‘fitting’, or refer quae to soror, assuming an ellipsis of in eam (i.e. et in eam … inlatam) and taking par as equivalent to digna.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , December 2014 , pp. 865 - 866
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2014 

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1 I am transcribing the text directly from a photographic reproduction of F, the eleventh-century MS now at Florence (Laurentianus pl. 68.2) upon which our knowledge of the Metamorphoses ultimately depends. I also refer to the editio princeps by G.A. Bussi (Rome, 1469); to the editiones variorum by F. Oudendorp (Leiden, 1786) and G.F. Hildebrand (Leipzig, 1842); to the critical editions by D.S. Robertson (Paris, 1945) and M. Zimmerman (Oxford, 2012); and to the text, with Italian translation, by L. Nicolini (Milan, 2005).

2 E.g. Zimmerman, M., GCA 10 (2000), 316Google Scholar: ‘the … death, which did not befit her in the last’.

3 Thus Augello, G., Studi apuleiani (Palermo, 1977), 218Google Scholar.

4 Cf. 5.19.1: ut par erat, and OLD s.v. 14.

5 See her perceptive note at Nicolini (n. 1), 672, n. 16.